FEEL LIKE ME

I wanna breathe that autumn air

That comes around this time of year

In central Illinois

I’m a Woodford County boy

But I’m stuck down in Laredo

Border-town shit-hole

Two years ago I packed my car

Old Chevette ‘84

Drove it till the engine smoked

Hitched a ride through San Antone

Got a job tending bar

Let a senorita break my heart

I wanna sink my feet, into some Illinois clay

Walk along a cornfield, in the cool of the day

Get a dog and chase, a raccoon up a tree

Get back to what makes me feel like me

Find a Midwest girl, that can handle the cold

And doesn’t leave when I run out of pesos

Buy some acres with a pond, out in the country

Get back to what makes me feel like me

That senorita took me

To Ciudad Acuna

Manuel Ojinaga

Down to Chihuaha

Then on up to Juarez

Where I went off the deep end

Had trouble at the border

So a coyote snuck me over

Thumbed a ride down Highway Ten

Passed through San Antone again

Chasin my tale in Laredo

With cowgirls and tequila

I wanna sink my feet, into some Illinois clay

Walk along a cornfield, in the cool of the day

Get a dog and chase, a raccoon up a tree

Get back to what makes me feel like me

Find a Midwest girl, that can handle the cold

And doesn’t leave when I run out of pesos

Buy some acres with a pond, out in the country

Get back to what makes me feel like me